"Spare CUNY, and Save the Education our Heroes Deserve" (City Limits)
Item
Title
"Spare CUNY, and Save the Education our Heroes Deserve" (City Limits)
Description
City Limits article from May 2020, written by three Brooklyn College faculty members, on saving CUNY. The article directly and significantly addressed CUNY students as "heroes" for New York who work in frontline roles: from stocking essentials on shelves, to driving cabs, and delivering food. It speaks to the way their students establish community, and to the significance of funding CUNY in this moment. Like other articles, this piece speaks to the long history of CUNY austerity and its previous status as a free institution. This item is part of the CUNY Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Matthew K. Golds Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The goal of the project is to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNYs 25 campuses. Further, we want to document the moment of crisis response from a critical approach to educational technology.
Creator
Theoharis, Jeanne
Aja, Alan
Entin, Joseph
Date
May 13, 2020
Language
English
Publisher
City Limits
Rights
Obtained from Contributor - Copyright Unknown
Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
uri
https://citylimits.org/2020/05/13/opinion-spare-cuny-and-save-the-education-our-heroes-deserve/
Theoharis, Jeanne, Aja, Alan, and Entin, Joseph. “‘Spare CUNY, and Save the Education Our Heroes Deserve’ (City Limits)”. City Limits. https://citylimits.org/2020/05/13/opinion-spare-cuny-and-save-the-education-our-heroes-deserve/, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1947